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Doors open on new facility for regional leukaemia patients

A new facility for country leukaemia patients will open in Adelaide today.

The $10 million Patient Village at Northfield provides free accommodation together with recreational and support facilities.

Janica Lewis from the Leukaemia Foundation says previously there were long waiting lists for the few apartments available.

Ms Lewis says it is a significant day for country people with leukaemia.

"The key thing here is to keep families together, to keep that support network up ... having blood cancer and going through treatment can be really challenging and so we just know anecdotally by keeping families together ... we hope there can be better outcomes," she said.

"Before this we've had some apartments in Adelaide but we had a massive waiting list for them.

"This is now going to be doubling our accommodation facilities and not only that it's actually fully state-of-the-art, comprehensive support facilities.

"It's never been done before so we're extremely excited and we can't wait to welcome families from all across regional South Australia to be part of it."